Social Pressure On Women 's Looks And Behavior

Both of these perspectives provide a fundamental understanding of how and why gender stereotypes are so powerful in today’s society but they fail to explain how gender stereotypes started. In order to truly understand the power that stereotypes yield, we must first examine the historical context that gave rise to their existence.

In the narrative poem “Barbie Doll” the little doll character shows the theme society’s pressure to look like other people, can lead to a tragic event. In the

Whether acknowledged or not, stereotypes are an issue in society. Stereotypes are often related to culture and religion, but also exist in forms related to gender. As seen in the movie Crash, stereotypes falsely label individuals in society. The labels created by stereotypes influence interactions individuals make with one and other. These interactions can be hostile or warm depending on the stereotypes society believes of the group the individual identifies him or her self with. Stereotypical ideas influence everyday life as individuals encounter various people of various backgrounds. Stereotypes have society falsely create expectations of how others should and ought to be. Ignorant ideas that arise from stereotypes may result in consequences such as violence and discrimination. Gender stereotypes regarding women affect a woman’s ability to be successful and make females vulnerable to social discrimination.

Gender socialization begins the moment we are born, from the simple question “is it a boy or a girl?” (Gleitman, Fridlund, & Resiberg, 2000) We learn our gender roles by agencies of socialization, which are the “teachers” of society. The main agencies in Western society are the family, peer groups, schools and the media. In respect with gender socialization, each of the agencies could reinforce the gender stereotypes. Gender differences result from the socialization process, especially during our childhood and adolescence. In American society, the color pink is associated with girls and the color blue with boys. Even as babies, boys and girls are dressed differently, according to what is considered “appropriate” for their respective sexes. Because I was born a biological female, my family automatically decorated my room with every pink or purple item imaginable, and I was

Society has implemented on us the beauty is in the exterior and not in the interior media, fashion even ourselves are guilty of this. This causes a greater expand of the extent of the insecurities young woman obtain. The poem “Barbie Doll” is about a young girl coming of age, and her body is starting to change and her classmates notice. For example, when the speaker states “then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said: / you have a great big nose and fat legs” (5-6), at this moment the young girl who never worried about those aspects of her body had now been the only thing that she could see herself as, as we see when the speaker later states that the character felt that “everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs” (11). The moment that her classmate pointed out her flaws she not only felt that that’s how everyone saw her, but that was how she saw herself. She continued to pretend as though it did not bother as she was “advice to play coy/exercise, diet, smile, and wheedle” (12-14). Until her “good nature wore out/ like a fan belt” (15-16) she no longer had the strength to avoid her flaws till she took her life. Throughout the poem the characters mood is insecure as previously stated all she saw was a “fat nose on thick legs” (11) she was no longer confident in herself when her classmate pointed out her flaws. The representation of the doll is the symbolism the author use to convey the unrealistic expectation a woman tries to achieve to be accepted. In the poem the character is compared to the Barbie Doll, and although the character obtains other attribute such as “she was healthy, tested intelligent” (7) that did not seem no matter as long as she had thick legs and fat nose with the Barbie did not

Lillie Devereux Blake said, “People share a common nature but are trained in gender roles”. This seems to suggest that stereotypes are developed through culture and life experience. How people learn their specific gender roles is often through what they learn from the family but, also, what they learn from friends and peers. Often people make false assumptions that lead to sexism and stereotypes. These assumptions can cause false accusations and beliefs. This paper will examine some of the stereotypes between men and women and how these stereotypes can lead to negative feelings between men and women.

A debated topic in today’s world is gender stereotypes, which is a subject that’s been argued upon for over a century, this essay will analyze Noel Perrin’s perspective on the subject, as well as my own opinion to the subject matter, and compare those to each other and to the traditional gender roles/stereotypes.

The stereotyping of things is not only in evidence all around us today but is almost a necessity. When the average person is looking for clothes they have to find the section that will likely have the items that they are looking for. Men go to the men’s section, women to the women’s section, girls to the girl’s and boys to the boy’s. This stereotyping of gender is also found on TV and is displayed by the roles that men/boys and Women/girls occupy. One has to ask themselves why this is and where do these stereotypical ideas come from. The unfortunate truth is that it begins at birth and continues on through the informative years of children in today’s society.

It has long been generally accepted that we as humans are influenced greatly by the things that surround our everyday lives. These things can include friends, family, co-workers, the media and even society as a whole. The society in which people live can play a huge role in how they view themselves and how they view others. Over the years researchers have come up with many theories as to how and why society has such a large influence on people. Now-a-days there are appearance prescriptions for everything in our society. It is not good to be too fat, but it is not good to be too skinny either. The way a person looks, dresses and acts is a large

This research paper is dedicated to the exploration of what social pressure demands on the sexes and how that affects an individuals decisions and life compass for the entirety of their life. Gender can be defined as the masculine and feminine qualities of an individual. One can identify on this spectrum anywhere from overtly domineering to compassionately submissive. Sex has a great effect on where a person identifies themselves on this spectrum. Domineering, leadership roles are often given to men, and nurturing, caring roles are often given to women. These societal “norms” and gender typing have great impact on the individual thought of each person. Whether one realizes it or not, most of their life decisions are based on which gender

This paper addresses the factors that go along with growing up with society's gender stereotypes. people are expected to grow to fit into certain gender roles as they mature and when they do not do so problems may arise. This paper tells about the types of gender stereotypes that are seen within our society and why they are so. This paper also addresses what happens to people's mental and in some cases physical well-being when forced to battle this need to fit the gender roles however feeling completely different on the inside. This paper goes into the consequences that along with going against the general stereotypes and is meant to provoke a call to action in the readers and to show them just how severe the effects of these stereotypes can be.

A majority of the world’s cultures have one thing in common, male dominance. This mass of male dominance has allowed males to influence society’s perception of how a gender is supposed to be in favor of maintaining females in an inferior position in order to maintain male dominance. One way society gives into maintaining male dominance is by placing attributes contributed by women lower than the same attributes contributed by men, often not even recognizing the attributes contributed by women because their attributes have been reduced to their appearance. “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy presents an example of the pressure society imposes on women to fit into their vision of the perfect woman by telling the story of a girl who commits suicide after not being able to fulfill society’s expectations of her appearance. The language and images in particular in “Barbie Doll” further contribute to the depiction of society pressuring women to achieve a certain appearance and act a specific way that reduces them from a person to an object, ultimately allowing women to be placed in a subordinate position to men.

With the ongoing feminist movement, women’s issues have raised all around the world. The status of women is being higher and higher and most of the people in developed countries consider women’s rights are equal to human’s rights. Some people believe to promote equality between men and women is to end stereotypes about women in society. Others insist women’s issues are always existing, and the stereotypes could never be exterminated because the influences of stereotypes are passing generation by generation. Although stereotypes still exist, and it is difficult to exterminate on human society, viewing women are equal to men is to treat women respectfully without considering stereotypes. That means, it is true that stereotypes are difficult to exterminate, but people should not judge women by their stereotypes. They should judge by their logical thinking with full of knowledge. Therefore, the obstruction of promoting equality between men and women are the stereotypes to women, people’s backward thinking and the physiological differences between male and female.

Every day girls worldwide wake up, apply their makeup, wear fancy expensive clothing, wear high heels, and wear skintight clothing. Girls do this every morning because they have to. Society expects them to. Even young girls are encouraged to look a certain way. As time goes on it appears that younger and younger kids are now sporting outfits that reflect the current adult trends. In my personal experience I have witnessed young teen girls that have gone through so much trouble that they resemble a young woman; despite the fact that they have barely touched puberty. Children are now being included in the social norms and expectations of women at an age that is not safe for their self-esteem. Young girls are now self-conscious about themselves because of what others think. These girls are being taught that they should look a certain way to fit in or to be popular. Novelist Marge Piercy has contributed her part in this topic by bringing to light a significant social issue that focuses on the expectations of the typical girl through her short poem Barbie Doll. This poem introduces a typical young girlchild who is victim to the tortures of a girl who does not fit in with society. The girlchild is given the same toys as everyone else. The toy is a doll a plastic Barbie doll with pitch perfect hair and a slender body. Piercy is arguing how nearly every girl will receive the same toy and that same toy will give off the same message to all children, boy or girl. That message is that